One last question:
How come that Java double, which is an 8 byte size floating point
number, cannot fit in PostgreSQL's double precision type, which is
equally a floating point type and 8 bytes in size?
Thanks
Peter
On 9/5/07, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Peter Kovacs wrote:
> > Heikki,
> >
> > Thank you for your reply.
> >
> > What are base-10 datatypes? Are they numeric types? I cannot find them
> > in the backend documentation.
>
> I meant any data type that can accurately represent a base-10 decimal
> number. In PostgreSQL, that's numeric. In Java, it's BigDecimal.
>
> If you're not familiar with the differences between floating point and
> decimal numbers, I'd suggest you to read on it. This python tutorial for
> example has a pretty good chapter on the issues:
> http://docs.python.org/tut/node16.html
>
> > Is there a mapping of Java types to backend types documented somewhere?
>
> There is for mapping between Java types and SQL types, see "Getting
> Started with with the JDBC API" by Sun:
>
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/jdbc/getstart/mapping.html
>
> --
> Heikki Linnakangas
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